Prison Service Journal 267

This general edition of Prison Service Journal discusses a range of issues concerning both those living and working within prisons.

It also includes the announcement of the winner of the Bennett Award for Outstanding Article 2022: ‘Living in the present, imagining a future: Children and young people navigating the mandatory life sentence’, by Rachel Tynan, which appeared in PSJ 261.

In this edition:

• Editorial Comment
• Juvenile custody in Canada: Legal policy and current context, by Hesam Seyyed Esfahani and Carole C Tranchant
• Is the Mask of Sanity Impenetrable? Using the Observations of Correctional Staff to Detect Psychopathy According to the CAPP Model, by Dr Malin Pauli, Sofia Bermås, Dr Jenny Liljeberg and Dr Katarina Howner
• Prisoner Wellbeing: A synthesis of the evidence base, by Kate Netten and Dr Rachel A Gibson
• What is Ethical Prison Architecture? An Exploration of Prison Design and Wellbeing, by Kelsey Engstrom and Esther van Ginneken
• Prison Officer Training in Scotland And Norway: Is It Fit For Purpose, by Kaigan D Carrie
• Aligning the goals of detention and rehabilitation with recruitment, retention and professional development strategies in European prisons, by Rhianon Williams, Carmen-Valeria Baias, Inês de Castro, Ângela Fernandes, Autun Purser, Alexander Vollbach and Daiana Huber
• Correctional Officer Recruitment in Canada’s Federal Prison System: An Analysis from Perspective of the Correctional Officer, by Rosemary Ricciardelli, Marcella Siqueira Cassiano, Dale C Spencer and Ayla Zehtab Jadid
• The Experience of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Ex-Prison Officers, by Joanna Binley
• The Bennett Award for Outstanding Article 2022

Book reviews:

• Alexander Paterson: Prison Reformer, by Harry Potter (reviewed by Lewis Simpson)
• Minority Ethnic Prisoners and the Covid-19 Lockdown – Issues, Impacts and Implications, by Avril Brandon and Gavin Dingwall (reviewed by Martin Kettle)
• Prisoners’ Families, Emotions and Space, by Maria Adams (reviewed by Lynn Saunders OBE)
• What we fear most: Reflections on a life in Forensic Psychiatry, by Ben Cave (reviewed by Ray Taylor LLM)